The line-noise-reduction for low dose x-ray fluoroscopy with the flat panel detector

Tadashi Nakamura; Shigeyuki Ikeda; Katsumi Suzuki; Shinobu Takenouchi

doi:10.1117/12.651945

2 March 2006 The line-noise-reduction for low dose x-ray fluoroscopy with the flat panel detector

Tadashi Nakamura, Shigeyuki Ikeda, Katsumi Suzuki, Shinobu Takenouchi

Proceedings Volume 6142, Medical Imaging 2006: Physics of Medical Imaging; 61422T (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.651945
Event: Medical Imaging, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A scintillator type Flat Panel Detector (FPD)¹ has a good noise performance especially in Fluoroscopic images because of high DQE. Almost same dose as I.I. and CCD system is accepted in clinical use. According to the clinical study, the dose in fluoroscopy will be decreased if we can reduce the line noise coming from gate line of the Thin Film Transistor (TFT). The purpose of this study is to detect and reduce this line noise from the fluoroscopic images making it possible to perform a lower dose of fluoroscopy imaging. We detected the line noise by acquiring a dark image (without exposure) and then comparing the average of the line data along to the gate line to the neighborhood lines. We have applied this method to the dark area taken by the collimator of the Lucite phantom image and detected it. The detected line will be compensated by interpolation with neighborhood lines. The FPD of our system² has a big detecting area (40cm x 30cm) and a zoom mode is selected in fluoroscopy because the doctor is watching an edge of the guide-wire and a contrast medium. The collimated area of the detector is displayed in a monitor after the zooming process and we can take a collimated dark area for detecting the line noise. As we applied this method to the dark image (1024pixels x 1024lines) including 54 lines with noise, we can improve 10% of SD. Visible line noise of chest phantom image was reduced with this method. It will help to lower the fluoroscopy dose.

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Tadashi Nakamura, Shigeyuki Ikeda, Katsumi Suzuki, and Shinobu Takenouchi "The line-noise-reduction for low dose x-ray fluoroscopy with the flat panel detector", Proc. SPIE 6142, Medical Imaging 2006: Physics of Medical Imaging, 61422T (2 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.651945

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